Two roadside bombs struck a convoy carrying Iraqi families fleeing Daesh-controlled town in the north of the country late on Friday, killing 18 people, a police officer said.
The bombs targeted a truck carrying people from Hawija, about 120 km (75 miles) south of Daesh’s stronghold in Mosul, as they were being taken to the town of Al-Alam, next to the Tigris River.
17 of the dead were from the displaced families, regional police Colonel Nemaa al-Jabouri told a foreign media agency. One policeman in an accompanying patrol car was also killed.
Pictures published on social media by a group linked to Iraq’s defence ministry showed several blackened corpses next to the twisted metal remains of the truck.
